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Two best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions.

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Video-Reviewmaster.com - 8/10 by Steve CrumControversial for its time Ken Russell classic.

Creative Loafing - 8/10 by Matt BrunsonThe story occasionally grows choppy and diffuse, yet the visual splendors never fail to take command.

Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 6/10 by Dennis SchwartzIt's Russell as restrained as he can be, who has fun delving into the sexual explorations of the author.

Vogue - 6/10 by Janelle OkwoduUnable or perhaps unwilling to rein in the source material's sentiment, [director Ken] Russell created a work defined by its earnestness-something that remains potent nearly 50 years later.

Q Network Film Desk - 6/10 by James KendrickIf you find your interest waning as the film moves on, it is likely due to exhaustion of trying to generate empathy with characters who constantly evade such connection. So much of the film feels written and performed, but rarely lived.

Village Voice - 6/10 by Simon AbramsBates and Reed's homoerotic sparring would be sexy and shocking in any context. But Women in Love's talkier scenes are more exciting than any screen nudity could be.

Artforum - 6/10 by Melissa AndersonYet it is to the film's great credit that, in depicting that "puritanical insistence," heterosexuality is revealed to be the most unnatural form of coupling.

User Review - 10/10 by Adelmo SEverybody loves to hate Ken Russell now. Back in 1970, they mostly knew him from the films he did for BBC-TV, and they took this adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel (with a script by Broadway playwright Larry Kramer) seriously. The acting is fantastic (Glenda Jackson won the Best Actress Oscar), the cinematography is gorgeous, and Lawrence's rough sexuality still shocks. (Georges Delerue's music is still one of the best unreleased soundtracks, too.) Say what you want about later things like "Lair of the White Worm" and worse - Ken Russell had a way with actors.

User Review - 10/10 by Aaron DThis witty and quotable film is about wealthy and good-looking intellectuals, two men who seem to have hidden feelings for each other and two women who want to be in love and be loved. It also has some insightful ideas about society, love, life, etc. and the scene where Ruperts describes how to open a fig is quite seductive and enticing. The homoerotic scene where the two men wrestle and do almost everything to each other but kiss is highly intense, arousing and memorable.

User Review - 10/10 by Christina GI once sat through this film three times in a row at an repertory cinema in Provincetown.